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Castle of Llorenç de Montgai

Camarasa, Noguera, Lleida

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Castle of Llorenç de Montgai

Monument · Camarasa, Noguera, Lleida

Image of Camarasa, not of the place itself.

Remains of a castle on a crag jutting out from the Sant Cristòfol range, above the village of Sant Llorenç de Montgai, in the municipality of Camarasa. It was an important Andalusian "hisn" cited by Arab chroniclers of the 10th and 11th centuries, which protected Balaguer from the Christian nobles of the north and controlled the passage of the river Segre. Still Muslim, it is mentioned in 1035 in a donation by Count Ermengol II of Urgell; in 1091 it had to pay parias to the castle of Gerb to preserve its Andalusian status. It did not fall into Christian hands until around 1115, after the conquest of Balaguer. In 1211 it served as the last refuge of Guerau Ponç IV of Cabrera, taken prisoner there by the king of Aragon. It preserves remains of the perimeter wall and square towers on the rocky spurs.

Photo: Isidre blanc (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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